Fish-stringing device.



R. COLEMAN.

FISH STRINGING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION run) we. 10, 1908.

Patented July 20,1909.

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unrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH COLEMAN, or HERNDON, VIRGINIA.

FISH-BRINGING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20,, 1909.

Application filed August 10, 1808. Serial No. 447,817.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH Conn-m, citizen of the United States, residing at Herndon, in the county of Fairfax and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fish-Stringing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

. My invention pertains to improvements in what may be termed devices, designed for stringing and carrying or transporting fish more especially in bunches.

Said invention has for its object to carry out the aforesaid purposes in a convenient,

expeditious and effective manner; also to.

provide for the ready stringing of the fish,

as well as for the removal of the fish with facility and expedition and for removing or unstringing the same from the bottom end of its suspending means or string; also to provide for the retention of the fish in bunched position without forming the suspending string or means into a loop or bringing its ends together specially for that purpose.

Said invention consists of certain features or instrumentalities substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and defined by the threading end of the string secured to the bottom retaining member. Fig. 4, is a detail end view, partly in section, of the device, the cross-bar stop-member being inverted, as

' when passing the eye-ended portion of the 2 or like instrument, for

tubular or socket member between the crossing portions of the loop of said stop-member. Fig. 5 is also a detail view thereof, viewing the same parts from below upwardly.

In carrying out my invention, I em loy a suitable suspending means, prefera l a string or twine 1 for car or upon w ich to bunch the fish, an to one end of said string or twine is suitably attached a needle threading the fish thereon, and to the o osite end of said string or twine is suitali y secured a metal eye member 3, preferably cylindrical in outline, with its eye formed of an opening exterading transversely therethrough, near one en i The connections between the string or twine 1 and the needle 2 and the eye memher 3 are effected by securing the respective ends of said twine 111 sockets formed in the line of the axis theredf and o enin out through the inner ends of said nee 1e an eye members. I also employ a cross bar or re-' taining member 4, which is of such cross-section as. to allow it to be passed through the eye of the member 3 as 1n effecting connection therewith. Said retaining member has formed about centrally thereof a loop 5 to provide for moving or disposing the eyemember 3 thereon out of the line of the axis of saidretaining member, said member having its oppositely extending portions sufficientl spaced a art, as at 6, to allow the pas-i sage etween t e same of that portion or thickness of the eye-member 3 standing laterally beyond a cross-section of the retaining member, such passage however, being permitted only when the eye-member has been manuall moved into an inverted position or opposite y to the loop, to rovide against the accidental detachment 0 said eye-member from said retaining member when in normal or effective position, as when stringin or bunching the fish, or carrying t e same. The retaining member or bar 4 has also at one end an eye 5.for looping therethrough the suspending or carrying string or twine, at its needle-equipped end, as a convenient means of dis osing the latter out of the way after bunching the fish.

It willbe noted that, in order to effect the removal of the fish, resumably strung or bunched upon t e string or twine, it is only required that the eye-equipped member 3 be manipulated as aforesaid, thereby disengaging it from its previously interlocked connection or engagement with the loop 5 of the retainin cross bar 4, and allowing the fish to read' y fall off the string or twine at that end by their own weight. The eyemember 3 and the retaining member may again be. quickly rengaged, by sultably manipulating these arts in an obvious manner as will be read' y ap reciated. The device is exceedingly simp e, inexpensive and effective in action and dispenses with the use of spr' and such like, in addition *to obviating t e bringing together and uniting the ends of the fish suspending or stringing bar stop-member means as practiced in the use of the ordinary splints V or other similar contrivance for the like urpose.

I c aim-. 1. A device of the character described, comprising a strin ing member, and a crossgaving a centrally formed loo with its opposed crossing ortions latera y spaced a art forming t e entrance opening to said oop, said stringing member having attached thereto at one end an eyeended socket, the eye-portion of said socket having a cross-sectionally reduced lateral edge adapted to just pass'through said entrance-opening as said socket-equipped end of said stringing member is moved to detach said cross-bar stop-member from said stringing member.

2. A fish-stringing device, comprising a stringing member, a cross-bar stop-member and a tubular member, receiving thereinto said stringin member in the direction of its length and c amped thereto and having an eye at one end, said cross-barstop-member having a central loop with its crossin portions spaced off from each other, an said tubular member having its eye adapted to receive said cross-bar stop-member and itself slid upon the latter and between the crossing portions of the loop thereof, the loop-forming portion of said stop-member being finally received by said eye of said tubular member making efiective connection therebetween.

In testimony whereofI aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

RALPH COLEMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN M. FINN, H. O. THOMPSON. 

